In the first part of this chapter, we talked about naming conventions and further organizational governance configurations. As these are all theoretical definitions, the question always is how to make sure that they are all set; if a configuration does not fulfill the requirements, you run into a problem. Therefore, Azure Policies is a great toolset to configure the theoretical Azure governance in Azure and make sure that all resources comply to them, as if they do not, the appropriate user is unable to deploy the resource and the portal gives an error message. As you can see, Azure Policies can be found under All services in the Azure portal:
The following screenshot displays a general overview of all Azure Policies and which of the resources are compliant or non-compliant:
The Remediation filter displays all issues where, for whatever reason, a policy ran into an issue while being applied to that resource. In general, this view should have no entries:
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